The United States of America

The climate of the United States varies greatly, due to large differences in latitude, and a wide range of geographic features, including mountains and deserts.

 The climate is humid continental in the northern areas to humid temperate in the central and middle Atlantic coast regions, to humid subtropical in the Gulf and south Atlantic regions.

The southern tip of Florida is tropical. Higher-elevation areas of the Rocky Mountains, the Wasatch and Bighorn mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range are alpine. The climate along the coast of California is Mediterranean. The state of Alaska, on the northwestern corner of the North American continent, is largely subarctic.

The archipelago state of Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is tropical, with rainfall concentrated in the cooler season (November to March).

 Weather varies widely across the continental USA, as well as in Alaska and Hawaii.

 In general terms, summers are hot and humid in the plains and southern states, while the southwest is very hot and quite dry. Endless summers are southern California and Florida trademarks, while in the Pacific northwest and New England states, summers are warm with cool mornings and pleasant evening conditions.

 Winters in the southern states are mild, while in the north, northeast, plains states, and in the western mountains, conditions are often quite cold with heavy snow and sub-freezing temperatures.

 Severe weather in the form of thunderstorms is a normal spring and summer occurrence; devastating tornadoes are also common in the spring and summer months, especially in the central part of the U.S.

 Hurricanes occasionally strike the eastern coastline and Gulf of Mexico states from June through October.

 

• Why does the climate of the United States vary greatly?

• Name all types of climate that occur in the USA?

• What climate is in the state of Florida? What about the archipelago state of Hawaii?

• What climate is in the state of Alaska?

• Describe different seasons when you move across America.

• What natural disasters are common on the territory of the USA?